Richard Baker

Richard Baker was probably a younger brother of John Baker, although we have no confirmation. We believe that he may be the same Richard Baker that was working at Kent Island in the initial development in 1631. William Claiborne and Rev. Richard Jones established Kent Island. Jones’ son was living adjacent to Richard Baker in 1657 at Merchants Hope, and married the daughter of Captain Daniel Lewellin[i] who had married the daughter of the first John Baker.

John Baker

| Anne Baker = Daniel Lewellin

| Martha Lewellin = Rev Richard Jones

In 1636 Richard Baker[ii] married Mary Pace, the daughter of Richard Pace. In 1664, Richard Pace Jr. purchased land next to BAKERS PLANTATION in Charles City on Powell's Creek, which was later known as Merchants Hope. Richard Baker's plantation was adjacent to MERCHANTS HOPE where William Baker lived in his own muster in 1624. (See the following story about Merchants Hope)

Richard Pace, Ancient Planter = Isabella == Wm Perry (D1637) === George Minifie **(D1647)

| George Pace | Richard Pace Jr. | Mary Pace = Richard Baker | Henry Perry of Buckland = Elizabeth Minifie

** George Minifie claimed a head right for John Baker in 1635.

*** Francis Potts (wife Susanna Baker) called Henry Perry his kinsman

**** Henry Perry claimed a 1639 head right for a George Baker, and retired on the Eastern Shore. Buckland and Brookland seemed to be interchanged. In 1638, Jonathan Webster claimed George Baker to be his cousin, and son William Webster witnessed the wills of both the son and son-in-law of John Baker (circa 1604- circa 1656.

In 1639, Captain William Barker patented 1,300 acres adjacent to Elizabeth Stevens, which was adjacent land he had purchased from Nathaniel Powell. Her father, Abraham Piercey (Piersey) purchased the larger FLOURDIEU near Merchants Hope.

In 1624, a Richard Baker was listed as "dead" at the Muster of Sir George Yeardley[iii] in "Bermuda Citte" which is just south on the Appomattox, the general area later named FLOURDIEU that Yeardley sold to Abraham Piercey.

In 1635, Captain William Barker was captain of the ship, which brought to Virginia Dorothy Baker (B1617), Elizabeth Baker (B1619), and Henry Baker (B1617). That same year, in 1635, the following were mentioned as receiving money from the local government for killing wolves; Steven Hamlin, Patrick Jackson, Edward Hill, and Richard Baker. In 1635, Richard Baker received a £2,000 fine for hogs he had killed by a neighbor. In 1639, a Hugh Barker and Richard Barker were both head rights of Ambrose Cobb upon the Appomattox River on land adjacent to the first John Baker, but other records indicate that this was Richard and Hugh Baker.

Col. Edward Hill is important in the story because he eventually married Tabitha Brown Custis who was from Arlington Plantation on Old Plantation Creek. His first land patent was in Charles City County in 1638, near Richard Baker, with additional land patents along the Rappahannock by 1655, and a neighbor of Mrs. Aston on Turkey Island in 1660. There were two Edward Hills, father and son, and both served as Speaker of the House of Burgesses.

Also in 1639, we also found a land patent in Henrico at the "neck of Land" by Richard Johnson for 350 acres including head rights for a William Mumms. This is important because Mumms had been assigned to the same muster on the Eastern Shore and his daughter Mary Mumms most likely had married John Baker's son Hugh Baker.

In 1654, Thomas Baker[iv], apothecary of London died and mentioned in his will, Richard Baker of Virginia.

In 1655, Daniel Lewellin of Essex in Charles City County sold 60 acres of land across the river in Shirley Hundred to Col. Edward Hill "lately purchased of Dorothy Baker on which I lately lived ... provided always and it is agreed upon me and said Col. Hill that the said Hill shall keepe the housing free for the entertainment of one Mr. Thomas Noathway for seven years.

In 1657, Rev Richard Jones patented land, part of which Richard Baker and Patrick Jackson sold to James Ward in 1657. The patent refers to the plantation where Richard Baker lived. A land purchase by Robert Abernathy from Patrick Jackson and Richard Barker on this spot proved that Richard Baker and Richard Barker were one in the same, as was Hugh Barker the same as Hugh Baker.

In 1659, Lt. Jonathan Banister was ordered to repay Richard Baker and Thomas Parham, and in 1661, Richard Baker was a witness to a land record at Merchants Hope.

In 1663, an entire community of Quakers at Merchants Hope, apparently led by Francis Whittington, was evicted from Virginia and their community destroyed. We don't know how this impacted Richard Baker, but descendants of John Baker at Shirley across the James River certainly embraced the Quaker movement. Richard Baker was still alive in 1665.

In review, there was a Richard Baker (D1624) and William Baker at almost the same location in the 1624 census. William Baker was in his own muster, having come to Virginia in 1608, and the location was probably then known as “Bakers Point”. The famous Captain William Barker owned this property later in the 1630s. John Baker / Barker claimed a head right for Hugh Baker, and then we later show Hugh Barker and Richard Barker as declarations for head rights on property adjacent to John Baker. So it would seem that Hugh, John, and Richard are related. Richard Baker is a brother-in-law to Henry Perry of Buckland who was a friend of John Baker's son-in-law Francis Potts. Perry, with ties to Richard Baker and Susanna Baker, claimed head rights for a George Baker in this same time period, and George Baker was known to be a cousin of John Webster whose son witnessed the wills of Hugh Baker, son of John Baker. George Baker was a mariner, and was claimed again in 1647 by Thomas Johnson whose granddaughter married Hugh Baker's son. Johnson's son married Mary Baker, daughter of Captain Roger Baker, mariner of Maryland and Virginia with property near Gargathy.

On January 18, 1678/79, the deposition of Colonel John Custis at his Arlington House discussed tobacco that he had loaded upon the ship, the “Providence of London”. In August of 1678, the deposition of a mariner, Richard Baker, mate of the Providence, claimed that Baker and another mariner, William Butler, were sent by Colonel Custis to the home of Colonel John Stringer, collector for the Eastern Shore, and Baker heard Stringer say that Custis had paid the duty on the tobacco loaded on the ship.

Flourdieu Plantation on the James River below City Point was established by Governor George Yeardley who served in the Low Countries in 1606 with Thomas Dale and Thomas Gates. He was thought to be the wealthiest man in Virginia.

Captain Nathaniel Powell was married to a cousin of Lady Dale, and he patented a very large tract of 600 acres next to Flourdieu that was called Powel’s Brook. He married the girl across the river, the daughter of Berkeley Plantation investor William Tracey. In the 1624 muster, a William Baker had his own muster here and he had come to Virginia in the Jonathan in 1609, a long time in that period of high mortality, and this property was purchased by mariner William Barker who renamed it Merchants Hope. William Barker passed the property to his son John Barker. Adjacent to Merchants Hope was Richard Baker’s Baker Plantation.

Captain William Barker, captain of a fleet of ships that transported multiple settlers to Virginia and New England, first purchased the property of the wealthiest man in Virginia, then the adjoining property from the next wealthiest, and it didn’t stop there as the following year, he patented another 1,250 acres. In 1637, he patented the 600-acre Bikers Point (Baker's Point). In 1638, Barker patented another 1,850 acres naming John Taylor, a girdler of London as his partner. Taylor arrived in Virginia the next year as a headright of Edward Drew, who himself had been an earlier headright of Lady Dales cousin. Drew was a Quaker, and John Taylor had converted to this new doctrine. Barker’s daughter Sarah married Taylor’s son, Richard Taylor, also a Quaker. He transferred the young man some land, and in return, he gifted his father-in-law with six outstanding children.

Suddenly, a man named Captain William Barker, who transports multiple shiploads of persons to Virginia, begins to buy property on the James River and acquires the plantations of the first and second most wealthy men in the colonies, Governor George Yeardley and Captain Abraham Pierey. Captain William Barker leased Captain Abraham Piersey's Plantation in 1634. On June 23, 1635, Captain Barker was captain of the ship “America” that registered at Gravesend before departure so the passengers could swear allegiance to the Church of England. Aboard was Henry Baker (Born 1617), Dorothy Baker (Born 1617), and Elizabeth Baker (Born 1617). In 1637, he patented the 600-acre Bikers Point (Baker's Point) claiming headrights for 12. The following year, in 1638, he patented 1,850 acres for 25 persons with his partner, John Taylor of London. It is not until 1642 that he acquired Biker's Point, apparently the land of William Baker who had been in the colonies since 1609 and was registered at this location adjacent to the original Powel's Creek in 1624.

Son John Barker’s will was November 24, 1662 and he married widow Pitt[x]. Richard Pace was his witness. Abraham Wood, neighbor, found John Barker free of all debt. Edward Baker died aboard the ship of Captain Robert Pitts. It was mentioned that Barker’s wife had a daughter named Hannah Pitt.

William Whittington[xi] patented land on Old Plantation Creek back in July 1637 on the Eastern Shore declaring a headright for Edward Drew, who then declared his own in 1639 declaring headrights for John Taylor near Merchants Hope.

Lt. Philip Taylor was an officer at Kent Island in the height of the hostility between Marylander and Kent Islanders. We later found him in Northampton on Broad Creek where he patented 500 acres adjacent to Edward Drew, Thomas Powell, William Stephens and where he died in 1643. His son, Thomas Taylor, sold his land to Major William Taylor who resold it to Thomas Harmanson Senior; a witness in several Baker wills who married the daughter of William Munns making him a brother-in-law to Hugh Baker. Broad Creek was described near Cherrystones Creek where Lt. Colonel William Kendall patented land. (Kendall married the widow, Susanna BAKER Eyre Potts.)

In 1648, while the Puritans were gaining an upper hand in England, Virginia continued to support the Anglican Church and there was a migration of Puritans from the Isle of Wight into Maryland. Other Puritans relocated to Hack’s Neck in Accomack where a Quaker community had developed, the conversion made by many Puritans who felt that their brothers in England had gone too far. Converts to the Inner Light generally were successful merchants who felt that they wanted to communicate directly with God, not through the clergy. The movement started quietly sometime in 1643 and by 1648 had tens of thousands of new followers in England.

The Quaker leader, Francis Whittington and his wife Elizabeth, left England after King Charles I was executed, part of a larger exodus from England of Royalists. Northern Neck was very rural at that point and Whittington had been informed that his flock could worship as they pleased. In 1650, he declared headrights for fourteen persons including George Bell, Rice Jones (who purchased the Richard Pace land in 1666), William Farrar, Thomas Meares, Richard Reade, William Morris, and Henry Palmer. Francis Whittington received his information from his kinsman, William Whittington who had settled on Lady Dale’s land on Old Plantation Creek back in 1640, before these problems in England. Lady Dale’s grandmother had been a Whittington, and her sister married a Littleton, that being the connection between Lady Dale and Nathaniel Littleton.

Beginning towards the end of the 1650s, less than ten years into the Quaker movement, Quakers were not allowed to conduct business, and it was illegal for any Virginian Anglican to have their name on a contract with a known Quaker, so Quakers they altered their names slightly to continue commerce. Otherwise, the Quaker and Anglican could lose their property, and the Quakers were sent to jail. Followers of the Inner Light were generally successful merchants and traders, and did not believe that another man could properly represent them to God, nor did they believe in war. There was ample proof in their lives that they were correct.

William Whittington Junior declared another patent in 1647 at Hacks Neck then William Whittington and Thomas Beale entered the colonies as head rights of Maurice Rose at Turkey Creek in October1657. Rose acquired John Baker’s land on Turkey Island in the curls of the James River when John Baker developed the land within site of Turkey Creek at Shirley Hundred.

Thomas Harris, brother of Sergeant John Harris, whose son Robert married William Claiborne's daughter, was a neighbor of Richard Cocks (Cox) in the 1630s at Turkey Island on the James River. Richard Cocke, on property adjoining John Baker on Turkey Island, declared head rights for Maurice Rose who subsequently purchased Baker's property and declared head rights for William Whittington and Thomas Beale. Subsequently Beale operated the ordinary for sheriff John Baker. Another neighbor was the deceased John Price (Died about 1638). Richard Cocke's brother-in-law was Thomas Cocke and had married Margaret Woods, daughter of Abraham Woods at the fort built by Captain Henry Fleet of Maryland legend. Wood's property adjoined the first property that the 1st John Baker patented, and apparently (possibly) William Jones, who was at the Eastern Shore Plantation with John Baker, in the 1620s married the widow Margaret Woods Cocke.

In 1663, Virginia officials evicted an entire community of Quakers at Merchants Hope, including their elder Francis Whittington, and razed their settlement. Lands were abandoned and families left Virginia any way they could find. Some attempted to walk, sometimes falling prey to Indian hunting parties. Others were stowed away in cargo holds of ships captained by friendly, or at least understanding, mariners. It was illegal for ship captains to transport Quakers to and from Virginia. Records indicate that some reappeared at the Quaker community near Nussawatocks on the Eastern Shore. It would be too confusing to show the many connections, but definitely John Taylor descendants reappeared.

Many, posing under different names, took transport to the Northern Neck of Virginia, which lies below the Potomac River so they could be taken across that river in Maryland during the night. When they arrived in Maryland, they settled near the Puritan community who should appreciate religious persecution. But the fact that the men would not take up arms was a problem in the frontier where the fierce Susquehannock was still attacking settlers.

In January 1662/63, Thomas Jones declared headrights at Powell's Creek, Merchants Hope, for nine persons including a William Flowers. This was near Abraham Wood’s fort, and William Jones, probably the same fellow who was in the John Baker settlement on the Eastern Shore possibly married his daughter.

In March 1662/63, a William Flowers purchased land on the Great Wicomico River in Northumberland from Henry Week (Weed), whose father had earlier claimed a headright for Hangate Baker[xii]. In 1670, William Flowers and Hugh Baker witnessed the gift of a hefer to Anne Baker Price, daughter of John Baker in Northumberland across the river from Maryland. In 1665, Robert Davis declared a headright for Jonathon Baker, and in 1684 married the widow of Hugh Baker. Robert Davis and his wife, Elizabeth Baker, relocated to Gargatha in Accomac near John Baker of Gargatha.

William Barker’s son, John Barker, who inherited these lands, married widow Pitt, wife of Captain Robert Pitts who lived at Isle of Wight, neighbor of John Bond. John Bond married the widow of John Baker who had lived across the James at Shirley Hundred and went by the name Baker and Barker.

A decade later many Quakers moved to Maryland from Virginia's Eastern Shore, but did not fair any better and eventually migrated to Pennsylvania. Many Quakers, who were quite industrious and generally wealthier than average, left Virginia in the early 1660s and crossed into Maryland. They were just beginning to establish a new settlement in Maryland on Monie Creek when Scarborough and fifty of his riders raided their settlement and demanded that they return to Virginia. Meanwhile in Virginia, those Quakers who had remained lost their possessions and were jailed in Jamestown if they continued to observe their religion.

William Whittington Jr. on October 29, 1669 purchased the William Eppes / William Stone land on Old Plantation Creek (Dales Gift) on the Eastern Shore claiming a headright for Quaker Jonathon Bond. This was land that Captain Eppes had developed and called John Baker / Barker a head right. William Stone had been awarded in 1640 (year of death of William Eppes) this land and granted it to William Whittington Sr. In the 1677 tax protest: John Wallop, Rich Hill, John Wise, and William Whittington signed the document. Whittington Jr. finally settled in Pitts Creek adjacent to Captain Robert Pitts, Junior on the Maryland / Virginia boundary just north of Gargatha, and went on to serve in the Maryland militia.

| Ursula Whittington | William Whittington (W1719) = Attalanta Toft (widow of Captain John Osbourne)

Hangate (Hungate) Baker came to Virginia on the “Assurance” in 1635 with ELIZABETH Baker (B 1615), JOHN Baker (B 1613), MARGARET Baker (B 1596), and LAWRENCE BARKER (B 1609). On Hangate's ship was Richard Hamby who inherited a portion of the estate on Old Plantation Creek of Lady Dale in 1640. This is the land on which Eppes and Baker were living, and where 400 acres was purchased by John Baker's grandson in 1696.

In 1635, Hangate Baker was listed as an indentured servant of Garrett Andrews at Claiborne’s Kent Island. Garrett was the son of Captain William Andrews who lived on Old Plantation Creek, site of the original “Dales Gift” and was very active in the formation of Kent Island at the end of the early 1620s. Garrett Andrews will later become known in historical records as Garrett Anderson whose stepchildren will marry some of the descendants of the 1st John Baker. Seven years later in 1642, Hangate Baker was listed as a freeman in Kent Island, but delinquent in his taxes.

Seven years later in 1642, Hangate Baker was listed as a freeman in Kent Island. Registered with Hangate Baker at Kent Island was Nicholas Wood who we know was in the Lynnhaven muster of Captain Edward Waters with Adam Thorogood. Waters widow married Obediance Robins. Thorogood's brother-in-law was John Baker of Mayfield and Lynnhaven. We found Hangate Baker listed in a number of tobacco payment claims, and it appears that there was some discussion that Hangate Baker had transported out of Maryland by January of 1643, and we even found a 1651 note that said that Hangate Baker had an unpaid debt to Richard Hamby who inherited a portion of the Sir Thomas Dale land. It seems that Edward Douglas, Lady Dale’s kinsman who was living on Dale’s old land at the tip of the Eastern Shore and Randall Revell gave testimony that Hangate owed Richard Hamby.

It probably was true that Hangate had slipped the clutches of the Maryland officials. In 1642, a Certificate was granted in Northampton, Virginia to Quaker Henry Weed and eleven others including HANGUT BAGER. Sitting among the commissioners were Captain William Stone and Mr. John Neale, both of whom will be involved in the politics of Maryland by the end of the 1640s, Neale was the overseer of the Dale property and shipbuilder for William Claiborne. The eleven were: Henry Weed, Elizabeth Lacey, Edward Tripp, Phillip Langford, John Boucher, James Wrenn, Henry Weed, Frauncis White, William Wheeler, Hangut Bager, Thomas Burnham, William Houses. Henry Weed died in 1644 and his wife remarried Richard Bayly. This was the same year that Maryland officials forced the Butler family off of Kent Island back into Maryland.

In 1642, a Certificate was granted in Northampton, Virginia to Henry Weed and eleven others including HANGUT BAGER. Sitting among the commissioners were Captain William Stone and Mr. John Neale, both of whom will be involved in the politics of Maryland by the end of the 1640s. The eleven were: Henry Weed, Elizabeth Lacey, Edward Tripp, Phillip Langford, John Boucher, James Wrenn, Henry Weed, Frauncis White, William Wheeler, Hangut Bager, Thomas Burnham, William Houses. County Court Records of Northampton 1640-1645. Page 261

In 1649, Richard Bayly was granted 700 acres on Cradicks Creek, (Cradock Creek in lower Accomac County) on September 15, 1649 for fourteen persons, many known Quakers, including the eleven above. The fourteen were: Elizabeth Lacy, Edward Tripp, Phillip Landford, John Butcher, James Wren, Henry Wood (Weed), Frauncis White, William Wheeler, Hangatt Baker, Thomas Bournham, William Howes, Elizabeth Wheatley, Lydia Wheatley, and Ambrose Dixon, a well known Quaker who first settled near Hacks Neck in a grant with Stephen Horsey, but became one of the orignial settlers of Someset County, Maryland with Stephen Horsey.

This may have been an example of the original transportation documents being reused by Richard Bayly to claim land. Maurice Baker (D1700) who immigrated to Maryland in 1675 deeded COVENTRY in Maryland to a Richard Bayly. John Baker, a mariner of Dover in Kent England was a brother to this Maurice Baker.

Maurice Baker (D1700) who immigrated to Maryland in 1675 deeded COVENTRY in Maryland to a Richard Bayly. John Baker, a mariner of Dover in Kent England was a brother to this Maurice Baker.

Henry Weede, possibly the son, was the 1651 headright of William Bacon in Northumberland, on the same day that Edward Cole claimed the adjoining Northumberland property claiming Hangate Baker. Richard Bayly died in 1661, and we later found his son Richard Bayly in Accomac County near some descendants of John Baker (circa 1604- circa 1656). Garrett Anderson ("sometimes Andrews") owned property near the Richard Bayly property. Henry Weed's widow Elizabeth married Richard Bayly after Weed's death in 1644. Richard Bayly died in 1661, and we later found his son Richard Bayly in Accomac County and Somerset County. Garrett Anderson (sometimes Andrews) owned property near the Richard Bayly property. These movements were probably steps along the way to migrate towards sanctuary.

This land on Cradock Creek adjoined Colonel Edmund Scarborough, the surveyor for the colony on the Eastern Shore who would become a surveyor for the State of Maryland. Scarborough had an intense hatred for Quakers. Richard Hill, who had been a headright with Maurice Rose of Richard Cocke at Turkey Island, now had the land on the other side of Richard Bayly, wife the widow of Henry Weed. Hill is later connected with John Baker, granting him land at Assawoman Creek (Gargathy), and Issac Baker of Nanticoke Hundred. His other daughter married Quaker John Drummond, who remarried Amey Waddilow, daughter of Quaker Nicholas Waddilow. John Baker of Gargatha settled on this property.

Richard Cocke remarried Mary Aston (D/O Col. Walter Aston), who was mentioned in the will of Francis Potts who had married Susanna Baker, daughter of John Baker (circa 1604- circa 1656). The records reveal that Mrs. Aston lived on Turkey Island adjacent Joseph Royall, Captain Edward Hill, Daniel Lewellin, Lt. Robert Craddock, Francis Eppes, and Sergeant Harris. Richard Cocke lived adjacent to Sgt. Harris's brother, Thomas Harris, father of Robert Harris who married Claiborne’s daughter.

It now appears to us that Hangate Baker who came to Virginia in 1635, an obvious relation to the 1st John Baker, was more than likely the father of Hugh and Jonathon Baker. Perhaps, the Hugh Baker declared as a headright by the 1st John Baker was the same person as Hangate, in which case he would have been a younger brother. Hugh Baker of St Marys (D 1684), sheriff John Baker, and Issac Baker all appear to be relatives also.

We also found this very interesting information in our research of Governor Dale. Horace Vere, who married Lady Dale’s cousin, fought alongside Governor Dale in the Low Countries and purchased Clearwell Manor from Dale’s nephew, Baynum Throckmorton, son of Lady Dale’s brother, William Throckmorton.

| Mary Ford = Thomas Fairfax Thomas Hungate | Dorothy Dale = Sir John North Horace Vere = Mary Tracey.

| Henry Fairfax = Frances Baker | John Fairfax = Mary Hungate | Thomas Fairfax = Anne Vere |

[i] Daniel Lewellin patented his land adjacent to Mrs. Aston near Turkey Island, and in 1654 purchased the land of John Baker (circa 1604- circa 1656) from his wife Dorothy. Francis Potts, husband of Susanna Baker Eyre, had also mentioned Mrs. Aston in his will. Lewellin claimed several head rights (1650 and 1656) for Susanna's brother, mariner Edward Baker. Lewellin genealogy indicates that Daniel Lewellin married Ann Baker, daughter of Jonathon Baker.

[ii] Court Orders 1655-1658

Page 51. Howell Pryse provided testimony for 1900 acres for the importation of the following: Includes Sylvester Baker, Robert Brook

Page 64. Dated 20 August 1656. Daniel Llewellin of Exxex in Charles City County sells to Colonel Edward Hill of Shirley Hundred, 60 acres lately purchased of Dorothy Baker on which I lived…

Page 65. It is ordered that the land late of Mr. James Warradine be divied in three parts, 2/3's to the heir and 1/3 to Mr. James Barker in right of his wife.

Court Orders 1658-1661

Page 221. Deed dated 25 September 1657. Patrick Jackson and Richard Baker sell James Ward 100 acres, part of 1,500 acres patented by Rev. Richard Jones (husband of Martha Lewellin), adjacent land of Captain Richard Tye and Thomas Wheeler.

Page 229. Order that Lt. Jonathon Bannister repay Richard Baker and Thomas Parham.

Page 252. The following were ordered to pay the Sheriff tobacco"

· Richard Baker

· Patrick Jackson

· Morgan Jones

· Col. Edward Hill

Court Orders 1664-1665

Page 330. Abstract. Deed of Gift. 21 January 1664/5 Richard Baker gives to Richard Pace parcel of land lying on the other side of the bottom on the west side of Richard Baker plantation counting 140 acres down to the great swamp. Witnesses William Harris, Patrick Jackson, Caesar Walpole.

Page 533. Abstract. Deed of Partition. 21 January 1664/5. Richard Baker and Patrick Jackson divide land jointly. Witness Richard Pace, Caesar Walpole.

[iii] Yeardley's son married Adam Thorogood daughter, and Thorogood's brother-in-law was John Baker of the Lynnhaven River. Son Francis Yeardley was a Puritan leader and lived in Maryland from 1655 to 1661 during the period the Puritans controlled Maryland.

[iv] Will of Thomas Baker of London presented December 13, 1653

Thomas Baker, citizen and apothecary of London, wife Sarah

Son Richard Baker, Now in Virginia

Daughter Francis Baker Hinde

Daughter Abigail Baker Fitzhugh

Son Thomas Baker, house in Clerkenwell

Son William Baker, house next door in Clerkenwell

Daughters; Mary Baker, Francis Baker, and Sarah Baker

Kinsmen:Master George Smythe. Friends: Master Thomas Jenny

Witnesses: Thomas Palmer, John Matthews, Edward Gregory

[v] A James Ward was at Powells' Creek in 1651

[vi] A John Taylor, Girdler of London, was a partner of William Barker.

[vii] Witnesses were John Barker and Howell Pryse, who later in 1655/56 would claim head rights for Thomas Baker and Sylvester Baker.

[viii] Richard Hill (Died 1674) was John Bradford’s guardian, and Captain Edward Hill was the guardian of John Taylor in 1681

[ix] Nath Bradford claiming 8 head rights in 1658 near Hacks Neck in the Quaker community.

[x] Edward Baker, son of John Baker and stepson of Dorothy Harris Baker Bond, died aboard the ship “Mary” of a Captain Robert Pitts Junior in 1664. Edward Baker, "Late of London" died aboard the ship MARY bound from London to Virginia, commanded by Robert Pitts. He mentioned "The goods I now have with me aboard the ship". He left his goods in the trust of Captain Robert Pitts, Commander of the MARY to give to his two friends Mr. George Clarke; at "Ye sign of the shippe and starr in Chesapeake" and Mr. Simon Hackett, watch mate in Cornhill in London. Dr. George Clarke was registered in Northampton near Old Plantation Creek in 1653, and Clarke's widow remarried William Waters. It was Waters who sold William Baker grandson of the first John Baker, his 600 acres on Old Plantation Creek.

Lt. Col. Robert Pits, originally located at Isle of Wight, served under Col. Nathaniel Littleton, and was commissioned by the Virginia Colony to solve the tax protest against England in Northampton County. He patented 1,000 acres at "Pitts Creek", and was assigned another 2,000 acres by Colonel Edmund Scarbourgh. He also patented 1,000 acres in Somerset County on Oct 28, 1665. On October 2, 1663, he patented land on the Pocomoke River (Pitts Creek) and claimed headrights for 40. Pitts also patented land in 1666 at Isle of Wight where some researchers feel that Dorothy Baker relocated and married Lt. John Bond. John Bond was named a headright of Col. Robert Pitts in 1664 in Isle of Wight County.

In 1656, Dorothy Bond sold some land of her deceased husband to Joseph Bridger who was the brother-in-law of Robert Pitts. Bridger's daughter Judith Bridger married Richard Baker, son of Lt. Colonel Henry Baker. In the 1678 will of Major John Bond, it mentions that the land was purchased from Robert Pitts. Since Major John Bond died by 1656, a son, Major John Bond and a grandson must have followed him by the same name who died in Somerset County, Maryland. There must be some family connection. Bond was a neighbor of Dr. George Clarke along the Wicomico in 1658, and patented 3,000 acres in Isle of Wight with John Clarke. Bond was a landholder in Isle of Wight, and upon the Rappahannock and Wicomico Rivers in Northumberland where we had some brief mentions of Edward Baker.

Robert Pitts died in 1669/1670, but had been appointed his land then called "Pitts Creek" by Col. Edmund Scarborough near present day "Bullbegger Creek". We think that there was a Robert Pitts Sr. who was married to Hannah Pitt, and it was son Robert Junior who was aboard the “Mary”.

[xi] Whittington Jr. finally settled in Pitts Creek adjacent to Captain Robert Pitts and served as an officer of Maryland.

[xii] In 1642, a Certificate was granted in Northampton, Virginia to Quaker Henry Weed and eleven others including HANGUT BAGER. The eleven were: Henry Weed, Elizabeth Lacey, Edward Tripp, Phillip Langford, John Boucher, James Wrenn, Henry Weed, Frauncis White, William Wheeler, Hangut Bager, Thomas Burnham, William Houses. Henry Weed died in 1644 and his wife remarried Richard Bayly. This was the same year that Maryland officials forced the Butler family off of Kent Island back into Maryland.

In 1649, Richard Bayly was granted 700 acres on Cradicks Creek, (Cradock Creek in lower Accomac County) on September 15, 1649 for fourteen persons, many known Quakers, including the eleven above. The fourteen were: Elizabeth Lacy, Edward Tripp, Phillip Landford, John Butcher, James Wren, Henry Wood (Weed), Frauncis White, William Wheeler, Hangatt Baker, Thomas Bournham, William Howes, Elizabeth Wheatley, Lydia Wheatley, and Ambrose Dixon. This may have been an example of the original transportation documents being reused by Richard Bayly to claim land.